The Seattle Post-Intelligencer previews this weekend’s third annual Penny Arcade Expo, which is expected to draw some 17,000 gamers and gaming-industry folks to Bellevue, Wash. “It’s sort of a Woodstock for gamers,” Penny Arcade artist Mike “Gabe” Krahulik tells the newspaper.
That 17,000 figure would be nearly double last year’s attendance (9,500), but organizers dismiss talk that PAX could replace the downsizing E3 trade show. “As far as being a clone of E3, we don’t want to do that,” says Robert Khoo, Penny Arcade‘s business development director. “”We want it to be more accessible than any E3 could ever be.”
Related: Q&A with Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik
August 26th, 2006 at 8:06 am
Also note Penny Arcade are currently running a “story arc” about going to the mall to buy the latest zombie game and finding it over-run with zombies. However if you’re not familiar with the series you won’t get most of the jokes, which revolve around long established (and in some cases long-forgotten) characters from the strip. Even the zombie ex-room-mate makes a brief appearance.